If you read the article HERE you find a lot of good information. Maps are displayed along with time lines that describe the encounter between Martin and Zimmerman. This is the most detailed account I have seen yet.

A week or two ago another thread asked why no footage had been shown with Trayvon getting his Skittles at the 7-Eleven. I speculated that they didn't want the public to know that this "poor little boy" was actually much bigger than Zimmerman, and no longer a little boy. But there may be another reason; he was never there.

According to the account Zimmerman first saw Martin near the clubhouse; to the west of the altercation and also to the west of where Martin was staying. Now that I had access to maps I did a search. As near as I can tell, the closest 7-Eleven is over 2 miles away - to the east. - 2700 West 25th Street, Sanford, FL.

The linked article also suggests that Martin doubled back specifically to confront Zimmerman. I continue to wonder if the reason Zimmerman thought he was acting suspiciously was because Martin was acting suspiciously. There are reports that women's jewelry and a flat screwdriver were found in Martin's backpack at school, but it was not acted on.

What if Trayvon was roving the neighborhood looking for "opportunity" and saw Zimmerman watching him? Do you suppose that maybe the Skittles toting the little boy who punched the bus driver may have wanted a piece of Zimmerman for trying to stop him?

If you know this area or turn up different information please post it. The affidavit specifically stated that he was coming back from a 7-Eleven after purchasing Skittles and Arizona Iced Tea. I remain unconvinced.

What if Trayvon was roving the neighborhood looking for “opportunity” and saw Zimmerman watching him? Do you suppose that maybe the Skittles toting the little boy who punched the bus driver may have wanted a piece of Zimmerman for trying to stop him?

This is what I’ve thought. He wasn’t just walking thru, he was acting suspiciously, GZ checked him out

Didn’t Zimmerman say Martin was going back and forth between houses? I’ll always believe he was scoping out a place to burglarize. And if he was so scared why didn’t he call the cops. I also believe his girlfriend probably told a different story to the cops the night of the shooting than what she’s telling today.

Per the American Thinker, a video of Martin at the 7-Eleven exists. Accounting for Martin's whereabouts from the time he left 7-Eleven until Zimmerman spotted him is another matter:

"But a video does exist. The public relations director of 7-Eleven told me that, according to the company's manager of security, a store camera captured an African-American male (she wouldn't commit to "young") purchasing a bag of Skittles and a can of tea (she wouldn't say that it was "Arizona" tea). The hard disk with the video was removed after the story broke, and it has been subpoenaed by investigators for the state and/or county. The company has not made it available to the media. The public relations director could not specify the exact time of the purchase but said it was between 6:00 and 6:30.

The 7-Eleven, according to maps.google, is 0.8 miles from the entrance to The Retreat at Twin Lakes, a 16-minute walk. There is not much to see or do on Rinehart Road on a Sunday night, and it was raining hard. Even if he was not bringing the tea and Skittles to his stepbrother but was eating and sipping en route, Martin should have arrived back at his dad's fiancée's place before 6:50, and much earlier if he left the store closer to 6:00 than 6:30. According to logs (now deleted from the department's website), Zimmerman called the Sanford police at 7:09:34.

Just as Martin did not go straight home after he first spotted the neighborhood watch captain, so, too, he apparently did not go directly to Brandy Green's apartment from the 7-Eleven. What exactly he was doing between the time he entered the gated community and the moment Zimmerman noticed him will probably never be known. Though there may be some plausible explanation for his behavior, the idea that he was simply returning from a selfless errand when he caught Zimmerman's eye seems less and less likely."

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posted on 04/12/2012 5:22:15 PM PDT
by Scoutmaster
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)

I live in a county here which is mostly republican , goes nearly 70% for the republican candidate and we have no Dems in power, it is over 90% whites and churches popping up all over the county, massive churches too.

Anyway in my area it is about 98% white and my wife and I were out shopping in food lion.
Low and behold two black kids one about 16 the other about 19 or 20 were walking around the store, making a noise and swinging arms out whilst shouting, getting attention etc
They had their pants past down their arse and their boxers were on full display.

Everyone from the workers in the fish stand to the checkout to those shoppers coming in the store was talking about them and a couple of people mentioned that they were looking for attention and that it seemed they wanted to be kicked out of the place.

No one said anything to give them that satisfaction but it was clear they wanted one person to say something or the manager to say they had to leave and then they could claim they were racially abused and picked on.

Now maybe they were silly little turds acting up or maybe they were looking for trouble/attention either way they did not get anything positive out of their act

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posted on 04/12/2012 5:25:14 PM PDT
by manc
(Marriage is between one man and one woman,It's not a conservative view but a true American view)

But Sharpton said yesterday to the MSM, sorry the lefts propaganda wing that he had loving parents just wanting justice.

If so loving then why was the suspended kid not grounded at home?
If it is justice then why call for the arrest and now happy ?

Course now an arrest has been made they can go forward with that civil suit but hey maybe it is me who is being cynical and the bleeding heart will say ‘ how can you say that she lost her beautiful loving son”

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posted on 04/12/2012 5:28:18 PM PDT
by manc
(Marriage is between one man and one woman,It's not a conservative view but a true American view)

But Sharpton said yesterday to the MSM, sorry the lefts propaganda wing that he had loving parents just wanting justice.

If so loving then why was the suspended kid not grounded at home?
If it is justice then why call for the arrest and now happy ?

Course now an arrest has been made they can go forward with that civil suit but hey maybe it is me who is being cynical and the bleeding heart will say ‘ how can you say that she lost her beautiful loving son”

Nothing to do with getting blacks all worked up for the election whilst the occupy lot are waiting for their orders this summer and then overturning our stand your ground law. Nah no way could it ever be that I mean on our local channel here the showed one guy in town saying that the towns needs to move forward, that Zimmermann should have been charged and then went into a tirade against people having guns.

ARF How many people did they interview before they found the dope like him to say what they think?

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posted on 04/12/2012 5:30:10 PM PDT
by manc
(Marriage is between one man and one woman,It's not a conservative view but a true American view)

” Just as Martin did not go straight home after he first spotted the neighborhood watch captain, so, too, he apparently did not go directly to Brandy Green’s apartment from the 7-Eleven. What exactly he was doing between the time he entered the gated community and the moment Zimmerman noticed him will probably never be known. Though there may be some plausible explanation for his behavior, the idea that he was simply returning from a selfless errand when he caught Zimmerman’s eye seems less and less likely.”

There is a 7-Eleven much closer, next to a SAM’s club less than a mile. What needs to be investigated is how the Trayvon Martin movement got started...out of DC by folks not related to the family, well after the shooting. I personally believe the Obama Administration and DNC were behind this movement.

To be fair, the things Martin has been suspended for are rather minor. I had a friend in HS over 30 years ago who was suspended for worse. Today he is a degreed professional and a VP at a medical equipment company.

My wife said last night “what is the point of having a gun to carry now when a black guy or a homosexual or a muslim can attack you and you are put away for defending yourself”

I told my wife that is exactly how the left wants people to think if they cannot get the gun laws here overturned.

I remember how some blacks were shouting “ wait till we get a brother in” or “ you crackers will get what you have coming soon”

Blackl racist can run around, cause trouble, shoot each other, commit crimes all they want but they can do it to whites and all is good according to Hodler and the DOJ

Remember that lawyer who stepped down from the DOJ said that the new lawyers in the DOJ got order to ignore crimes committed by blacks on whites but to go after whites?

We knew this for 3 years , since the black panthers stood outside a voting station and the GOP for the most part did nothing, can’t upset two blocks of voters who never vote for us anyway.
Many blacks and homosexuals

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posted on 04/12/2012 5:42:07 PM PDT
by manc
(Marriage is between one man and one woman,It's not a conservative view but a true American view)

I also believe his girlfriend probably told a different story to the cops the night of the shooting

I don't know when the police finally spoke with the girlfriend, but i believe that on March 31 (that's March 31) she was still refusing to give an interview to the police on recommendation of the Martin family attorneys.

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posted on 04/12/2012 5:42:51 PM PDT
by Scoutmaster
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)

no matter what he did to get suspended he should have been grounded and certainly not be allowed to roam about or hang out in a different neighborhood or a different city or even state.
If my kids were ever suspended , hell if they ever got into trouble at school they know they’d be grounded for some time.

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posted on 04/12/2012 5:44:49 PM PDT
by manc
(Marriage is between one man and one woman,It's not a conservative view but a true American view)

The little barry bastard regime head goon doubtless gave marching instructions to the fool prosecutor to charge Zimmerman as she did. The strategy appears to be to have a trial and an acquittal so the race rioting can begin. Holder is a racist thug working for a halfrican racist anti-American commie. It will get much worse before this is over. Watch for the ‘training runs’ of flash mobbing, preparing the feckless dullards to raise chaos on demand.

What needs to be investigated is how the Trayvon Martin movement got started...out of DC by folks not related to the family, well after the shooting. I personally believe the Obama Administration and DNC were behind this movement.

Martin's parents brought in a "boutique" law firm that apparently is making a specialty of "civil rights" cases (read: racial agitation). Are the "black community leader" types and some D.C. and state politicians involved as well? You bet. But that lawfirm is making themselves a name in the black community. Just wait, they'll start turning up in any case where some black guy gets killed by a non-black.

Almost immediately, within around thirty-seven minutes after the shooting, Zimmerman was already waiving his right to an attorney. He then proceeded to interview with the police for several hours without any legal representation present.

The very fact that he did this, stupid as it may have been, and they STILL don't have squat to charge him with (Dershowitz says the arrest affidavit was irresponsible And unethical) means that they aren't ever going to have squat to charge him with because he did nothing other than fight for his life.

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posted on 04/12/2012 5:54:44 PM PDT
by E. Pluribus Unum
(Over half of U.S. murders are of black people, and 90% of them are committed by other black people.)

would not surprise,me and I was surprised by how everyone came to the same thought.
A lot of good ole boys here too and one of them say to me laughing”look at those boy, you know damn well those boys are just looking to get thrown out and get those cameras down here”

Most others were just laughing at how pathetic they looked and how they acted

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posted on 04/12/2012 5:56:32 PM PDT
by manc
(Marriage is between one man and one woman,It's not a conservative view but a true American view)

Of even more interesting possibilities is that the “kid” was carrying a box of Skittles he already had on him.

Look up Skittles Party on wikipedia— a party where punks bring a skittles box full of prescription narcotics or stimulants for games at the party. Maybe he didn’t go to a 7-11 at all, despite what the affidavit said.

Just curious-—this was a “gated community” wasn’t it? If so, most of those communities that I have come across were either “manned” by someone in a gatehouse, or at the least a literal gate that you used either a key pad or some other method to gain access. So if that’s the case, unless he lived there or had friends who invited him, wasn’t he trespassing?

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